Directions: You are a sage and you will teach your classmates a part of ancient India's history. The four parts (groups) are...
Group 1: The Mauryan Empire (page 162-163, 166)
Group 2: The Gupta Empire (page 164-165)
Group 3: Indian Achievements- Religious Art & Sanskrit Literature (page 167-169)
Group 4: Indian Achievements- Scientific Advances (page 170-171)
Each part has (or might have) pictures, illustrations, maps, dates, vocabulary words, and important people. Your job as a sage is to become an expert on your part so you will be able to comfortably and confidently teach others. Remember that if you don't understand the information, you won't be able to teach others properly. Follow these steps to become a great sage:
Steps
Read all the information on the pages you are responsible for. Don't just read the main parts, look at the other information such as maps or diagrams or pictures.
Take notes in your notebook and answer the Reading Check question after each section to make sure you understand the information. You also have to answer the questions about your section from page 176 (section 4 or 5).
Decide how you are going to present the information to your students. Will you just talk about the information (this can be boring) or will you use visuals or give a slideshow presentation (this can be more interesting)? Remember that your students have not read the information and are counting on you to teach them in an interesting and educational way.
How will you check if your students understood the information? Will you make up questions to ask them? What else will you do? Will you ask your students to create something that shows their understanding? Think about how you are taught at school and the activities you do in your classes.
Your students must do the work you give them and they must do the following:
add at least three important events to their timelines (you choose the events)
Assignment 4-6
1. What are the main ideas expressed in Ashoka's edicts? People should live a good life by trusting people and being nice to them and that we should not be mean to slaves and servants.
2. What are some of the ways in which Ashoka's leadership promoted unity in India? People start believing in Buddhism and that people rebirth depending on your karma.
3. In what ways did Ashoka's Buddhist beliefs contribute to the unification of India? They gave people hope and peace and that there's no social level.
4. In addition to the edicts, what else might have contributed to the unification of India during this time period? One talks about effort and that if you put much effort into something you'll achieve your goal and that you will be happy.
5. Explain how one of the edicts you examined could be categorized another way. I categorized my topic about men who are to be given three days' respite in general welfare but I could change it to security because, the people there are securing the man if they're going to run away or not.
(i.e. instead of Buddhist Values it could also concern Justice)
Assignment 4-5
1. Why would having a central government help in planning and organizing a city? They could have combined their system to have one central government, so that government will deal in planning and organizing a city.
2. Who were Rajahs? Rulers of the city.
3. What is a Guru? A type of teacher.
4. What subjects were taught in school? Religions, about the government, (religious nature).
5. Who was in charge of the government? Indus priest
6. Why did people look up to the priests? Because the priests were the ones who made the offerings to the gods.
Assignment 4-4
1. What varna were you in during the caste system simulation? I was a Brahmin.
2. What was your favorite part about the caste system simulation? Why? I liked to make people do jobs for me like cleaning my Mac Book and getting me water, etc.
3. What part of the simulation made you angry, upset, or frustrated? Why? I was frustrated when people wouldn't do exactly what I wanted them to do for instance like drawing a master piece for me but came out to be a weird looking creature.
4. Do you think this system is fair? Why or why not? I think it's fair since the Brahmins because they have lots to take care of giving people commands, (that's a hard job since to assign every people there) while the other people like the Sudras, etc people work on their things so it's equal.
5. Do you think a society should organize people into social classes? Why or Why not? No we'd just do what we want instead of going to places we have to...I'd rather have freedom.
Assignment 4-1
In the 1990's, satellite pictures revealed an ancient, dried riverbed located in India's present-day Thar Desert. Geologists have identified this riverbed as the route of the ancient Sarasvati River. The Sarasvati lay east of the Indus River and generally followed the same course, originating in the Himalaya mountains and emptying into the Arabian Sea. Geologists believe that the Sarasvati River dried up around 1900 B.C.E. Over time, the once fertile area around the Sarasvati River dried up around 1900 B.C.E. Over time, the once fertile area around the Sarasvati evolved into the dry, hot desert that exists today.
Early Indian agricultural settlements arose in the Indus-Sarasvati river region at least as far back as 6500 B.C.E. Like many other ancient peoples, the early Indians settled by rivers. They settled primarily on the banks of the Sarasvati River as well as along the banks of the Indus River. These rivers provided the ancient Indians with plenty of water, and the land near the rivers was fertile and excellent for growing crops. The rivers also provided the Indians with a convenient way to travel and trade among themselves and with other civilizations. Archeologists have found artifacts from the Indus-Sarasvati civilization - such as carved seals - in Mesopotamia's Sumer. These discoveries have led scholars to believe that the early Indians traded with Mesopotamia, possibly by traveling in ships down the Indus and Sarasvati rivers to the Arabian Sea and then west to Sumer and other locations.
After the Sarasvati River dried up around 1900 B.C.E., the Indus-Sarasvati Indians moved to more habitable areas, such as the fertile banks of the Ganga river further east. Archeological evidence shows, however, that people settled by the Ganga River as far back as 5000 B.C.E.
Questions:
1. In what ways is your map similar to the one that you see in the map above? They both have all the mountains ,rivers and oceans labled.
2. What physio graphic features can you identify on this map that are not on your map? The Sarasvati River, Indian Ocean.
3. Why do you think settlements developed along the Indus and Sarasvati rivers? Explain with clear and complete details. Since those two rivers had water and fertile land, people would of lived close there for farming, washing their clothes in the river, playing.
4. Accurately draw and label the ancient Sarasvati River on your map.
5. Why did ancient Indian people eventually migrate to the Ganga River? The Sarasvati River dries up around 1900 B.C.E so the people who used to live there all migrated to the Ganga River. Assignment 4-2
1. What was discovered during the excavations of Mohenjo-Daro? There is the a big mound. Large and important buildings have been discovered here. Archologists call this place Citadel.
2. How is Mohenjo-Daro similar to our cities today? They had houses and rooms in them. They also had drain too.
3. What can we learn from archaeological discoveries (such as artifacts and city construction) in Mohenjo-Daro? Rich people made jewelry with gold beads and were also worn by rich woman. Animals were carved on seals and has Indus writing on it. They had wheels then and children played with cart models.
4. Give clear and specific information about how people lived in Mohenjo-Daro. In your answer, you have to talk about the artifacts that you discovered and put into the museum. Traders used weights to measure the goods they traded. Rich people made jewelry with gold beads and were also worn by rich woman. Animals were carved on seals and has Indus writing on it. They had wheels then and children played with cart models.
5. What do we know about the Priest-King? They are very important men. They wore gold headbands, They had their upper lips shaved and their beard combed. Back of their heads were flat.
6. What was the Great Bath and how was it used? The Great Bath is a bathing pool and there was water in it for people to go in.
Assignment 4-3
Think about the activity we did in class as archeologists in Mohenjo-Daro. Using the source above, your ideas, and the notes you took about archeologists ideas, answer the following questions clearly and completely on your wiki page. Each answer should be at least two sentences long with specific information.
1. What have you learned about daily life in Mohenjo-Daro from this activity? They had drains so all the dirty water could go down and go into the rivers. They played games and even used a dice like we do in these days.
2. Which characteristics of civilization do you see represented in the artifacts you looked at? Explain. I saw the seal figure and I think it's in a highly developed culture including art, architecture, music, literature, science, and writing because, there was Indus writing on it and it had also have art that looked very advanced. It was very specific and detailed.
3. In what ways do you think Mohenjo-Daro was like a modern city? They had houses made from mud-bricks and important men wore necklaces. They even had wheels then.
4. Why do you think it is difficult for us to know exactly what life was like in ancient civilizations like those in the Indus-Sarasvati region? Since the archeologists didn't know how woman and men looked like then we didn't know what jobs they do (example: wearing only pants= farmer). There wasn't enough tools to investigate what they used then.
5. What do you think might have contributed to the decline of Mohenjo-Daro? Maybe the other parts of India pushed them away since they had so good highly developed culture. Other parts of India could of stole their ideas. Ancient India day 2
1. What have you learned about daily life in Mohenjo-Daro from this activity? They had alleys, wells, bathing pools and had indoor bathrooms in their houses.
2. Which aspects of daily life do you see represented in the picture that the artist drew? Life of farmers and servants working in the town to serve the priests.
3. In what ways do you think Mohenjo-Daro was like a modern city? The people are wearing clothes that were only baggy pants and are carrying pots on their heads.
4. Why do you think it is difficult for us to know exactly what life was like in ancient civilizations like those in the Indus-Sarasvati region? We're no sure because, we don't have a lot of proof to tell if the people those days had other jobs or what the houses EXACTLY look like in those days.
5. What do you think might have contributed to the decline of Mohenjo-Daro.
They are slaves because there was a bunch of people sitting in the ground and were like guards so they wouldn't escape and other people giving them food. Assignment 3-8 Now that we are finished with the ancient Egypt unit, I would like you to reflect on what you have learned about ancient Egypt. Please complete these sentences clearly and with specific details. Write the answers on your wiki page. If you need reminders of what we did, just scroll through the assignments on this page or look through your notes.
1. The single most important thing I learned was that there was once a pharaoh who was a female named Hatshepsut and claimed herself queen. The Nile River was very important to the Egyptians.
2. Something that confused me or that I didn't understand was why did Hatshepsut want to be a pharaoh even though nobody actually wanted her to be a one since she's a woman.
3. What surprised me the most was that there was a female ruler named Hatshepsut and claimed herself a pharaoh with even a fake beard on.
4. I would like to know more about the Nile River, how it was created and why people liked it so much.
5. The part that I think I will always remember was that Hatshepsut was a female "pharaoh" .
In the Old Kingdom Egyptians started to build the first pyramids, pyramid is a huge tomb just for the pharaohs and is has4 triangle shaped walls that met in the point on the top. The largest pyramid was built by more then 100 Egyptians called the Great Pyramid of Khufu. It covers mare than 13 acres and stand at the height 481 feet. The pyramids shape pointing to the sky represented the Pharaohs journey to the after life.
Part 2 The Middle Kingdom (2100 BCE - 1800 BCE)
In the Middle Kingdom pharaohs didn't have enough wealth and power. Building pyramids cost a lot of money and the pharaoh could no collect enough taxes to keep up with the expenses. Life in this time was not good all people were dissatisfied with the pharaoh and had really long wars with the nobles. The nobles had enough power to defeat the pharaohs so they all made their life their own way. They crushed down the pharaoh's temples and made people believe in different Gods.
Part 3 The New Kingdom (1500 BCE - 1000 BCE)
In the New Kingdom conquest and trading brought the pharaoh wealth. Conquest brought Egyptian traders into contact with more distant lands also Egypt's trade expanded along with it's empire. Trade routes (path followed by traders) were also developed. In the war the Egypt empires were in the war and the Hykso and after that was Syria. Life being an empire was difficult since there was so many wars they all had to be in it and most of the people died being an empire was like giving your own life away.
Assignment 3-4
Part 1: Go to this site and read about the different Egyptian gods and goddesses. Choose one of these that you would like to be and explain why you would like to be that god or goddess. Then choose one that you would not want to be and explain why. Make sure your explanations are middle school quality explanations.I'd like to be the Sky Goddess which is Nut. I'd like to be her because she decides when morning and night is and that's on of the most important thing on earth, changing to day and night. I want to do something important so I'd like to be Nut. I'd not like to be Tawaret the goddess who protects pregnant woman because, Tawaret looks very ugly having a hippos face and all it does is protecting pregnant woman. It's also important to but pregnant woman can take care of them by themselves without a goddess.
Part 2: Compare these Egyptian gods and goddesses with the Mesopotamian gods and goddesses. Did you find similar gods? Name the gods/goddesses and clearly explain the similarities. Why do you think they are similar even though Egypt and the Mesopotamian civilizations were different? Adad and Anu are similar gods becuase they both have a job at the sky. Ninhursag is a goddess and protects woman gods and the god scorpion protects the sun god Shamash. They both protect people even though their goddess and god. Even though Egypt and the Mesopotamian civilizations were different goddess and gods had similar jobs because there used to be gods that they needed to protect,
Assignment 3-2
1. Read the If YOU were there section. How do you feel about working for the pharaoh? I'd feel lazy to do all the stuff for the pharaoh.
2. Eventually the Third Dynasty began in ancient Egypt. The Third Dynasty was the beginning of what historians call Old Kingdom. When did it start and end? 2700 to 2200BC.
3. Explain how ancient Egyptians felt about their country and their pharaoh. They believed that Egypt belonged to the gods they thought the gods sent down the pharaoh to protect Egypt.
4. What were the responsibilities of the pharaoh? Keeping the crops growing well and making no one sick.
5. What is best known about the famous pharaoh, Khufu? Can you name a specific monument built for him?
6.a Clearly explain the structure of society in the Old Kingdom. (Note: This should be a long answer.) Pharaoh was the highest then the noble then the craftspeople and the scribe then farmers, servants and slaves.
6.b. What may be some advantages and disadvantages of such a large segment of the population being farmers, servants, and slaves? Advantages are that you don't see the king often so sometimes you could rest for a while and some disadvantages is that you got to work all day without getting any money.
6.c. What did farmers do during flood season? Farmers worked on the pharaoh's building projects.
7. Clearly explain trading in ancient Egypt (what was traded and who they traded with). They got gold, copper, ivory, slaves, and stone for building.
8. Define the word acquire. Use acquire in an original sentence. Acquire is to get something. I acquired 10 bucks from my mom.
9. Using the drawing of Egyptian society on page 94, explain where Viziers would be placed. I think they'll be just below the pharaoh because, they work for the pharaoh and helping him do things.
Assignment 3-3
Why did Egyptians want to preserve dead bodies? Egyptians thought the body needed to be preserved because the soul could be recognized after the death.
How did they preserve bodies? What is this process of preservation called? Mummification.
Explain how the brain was removed from the dead body. Why was the brain removed? You get a metal hook and put it up through the nose to the brain and mix it in there. Egyptians got the brain out because they though it wasn't important.
Name the four internal organs that were removed from the body. What was done with these organs? Intestines, stomach, liver, lungs. They put all those in all separate jars.
What did they do with the heart? Why? They just kept it inside because it's important.
What is natron and why was it used? Using your scribble map of Egypt, name the area where natron came from. Natron is salt that absorbs moisture.
How was linen used during mummification? It wrapped the unfinished mummy around.
What are amulets and how were they used? Give two examples of amulets that were used and explain why they were used. Amulets are used because the Egyptians thought it keep the parts of the mummy safe. The Udjat is a amulet for representing good health and is shaped like a falcon-gos Horus eye. The heart amulet represented the heart meaning to protect the heart even in the afterlife.
What happens to the body after it was mummified? You put a mummy mask over it and put it in a mummy case and last of all it goes in the sarcophagus.
Assignment 2-8
Six Characteristics of Civilization
Evidence for Characteristic
Explanation Assyrians
1. A system of government that directs and controls some actions of the members of the society.
2. A regular food supply that is not likely to suddenly change.
3. Specialization of labor, in which members of the society perform different jobs.
4. Different social levels, in which some members of the society are given higher status than others.
5. A highly developed culture including art, architecture, music, literature, science, and writing.
6. A religious system, which might include priests and temples.
Evidence for Characteristic
1. There are people who take control of the country.
2. They had fertile and rich dirt there and farming was good.
3. There are people who work for the king and other farming or staying home doing nothing.
4. Priest and just normal people are all in different levels.
5. Writing, clothing.
6. Had temples and priests.
Explanation
1. The morach takes controls of what everyone's doing.
2. They had rich dirt there so they could plant lots of stuff because it grew well there.
3. The priest worked for the gods while other people were doing farming or just staying home.
4. Kings are in the highest place, priest in the second, and just regular people in the last.
5. People made the first writing called, Assyrian and Modern Assyrian.
6. People believed in gods and and went to temples to pray for them. Assignment 2-7
1. Read the "If you were there..." section on page 74. How will you advise the King? Everybody should be punished the same (if they did a crime that's similar) even though nobles and common people are in different levels they should be treated the same.
2. What happened to Ur by 2000 BCE? Ur lay in ruins.
3. Where was Babylon located? Babylon was located on the Euphrates River.
4. Who became the king of Babylon? When did he become king? In 1792 BCE Hammurabi became the king.
5. What is a monarch? A monarch is a ruler of a kingdom or empire.
6. After conquering all of Mesopotamia, what did Hammurabi call his empire? The Babylonian Empire.
7. Hammurabi was a great warrior and leader. What other skills did he have? He was an able ruler who could govern a huge empire.
8. What is Hammurabi's Code? What areas of daily life did the code cover? It's 286 laws you need to follow. Loans, marriage,etc.
9. Give two reasons why Hammurabi's Code was important. The Hammurabi Code lead the earth to a better place by law like capturing criminals. The laws now are in use in these days too.
10. What eventually happened to the Babylonian Empire? How is this similar to what happened to the Akkadian Empire? The Babylonian Empire failed after Babylon the ruler died, and that's exactly what happend to Akkadian's Empire.
11. Read the different laws in the Code of Hammurabi on this site and choose three that you think are interesting. Copy the three laws and their numbers onto your page. Then for each law, explain why you think it's interesting. You can write about if you disagree or agree with the law or if you think the law is a good law or a cruel law. 282. If a slave say to his master: "You are not my master," if they convict him his master shall cut off his ear. I think this is too cruel because, cutting off someone's ears only make that person become thinking that the master's not his master. 14. If any one steal the minor son of another, he shall be put to death. This is good because that will make people think that they should never kin app people. 22. If any one is committing a robbery and is caught, then he shall be put to death. This is an ok law because, that will decrease the amount of the people who will try to steal things because they are afraid.
Assignment 2-6 Trader's Circuit questions
What part of the game did you like the best? Why? I liked when I was able to trade what I wanted.
During the game, how did you feel and why did you feel that way? I felt kind of guilty when other people got what I wanted.
What part of the game was difficult for you? When I had to trade and the other person didn't wanted to.
In your opinion, what advantage is there to having a monopoly of an entire product/resource such as dates or jewelry? Dates are easy to get because their cheap and jewelry is good becuase it's expensive and some people don't like expensive jewelry.
What part of the game would you change if you played it again? Why? I wish we had more cards because, if you have no cards left over trading, you can't trade anymore.
In this game, was it better to cooperate with another player or to be selfish and try to get all the products/resources for yourself? Why? To be selfish because, you could get everything you want and can make a market with what you have and you'll also get all the money!
Assignment 2-5
Where did the Akkadians live? They lived just north of Sumer.
What was their relationship with the Sumerians like before the 2300s B.C.E.? They lived in peace together.
Who was Sargon and what did he do? He's the king of Akkad. He sought to extend Akkadian.
What did Sargon establish? He built a new capital city.
Define 'empire'. Land with different people under a single rule.
Explain two examples why Sargon is considered a great leader. He made a capital city and was a ruler of his empire
How long did Sargon rule his empire? 50 years
What eventually happened to the Akkadian Empire? He couldn't keep the empires safe so they failed.
Who eventually became the most powerful civilization in Mesopotamia again? Sumerians.
Using the picture of the City-State of Ur, what can you see in the picture that shows Ur was an advanced city? They had tall walls to protect people from coming into their town.
Assignment 2-4
1. Is Korea a civilization according to the six characteristics explained in class? Provide one example from Korea. for each characteristic. Number 1 accords to the six characteristics because, we have a government named Ey-myoung-back (이명박) and he decides things that Korea needs. 2. Does a civilization, in your opinion, need to have all of the characteristics mentioned? Why or why not? I think we needs all of the characteristics mentioned because, there needs to be a government to rule the country and people should have job, people should have different social levels because, if they are all in the saem level they'll do things whatever they want. We should develop culture to show country spirit and we also should have temples churches and stuff so people could pray for the religion they believe in.
The Six Characteristics of a Civilization:
1. A system of government that directs and controls some actions of the members of the society. (이명박)
2. A regular food supply that is not likely to suddenly change. (farming)
3. Specialization of labor, in which members of the society perform different jobs. (teacher,doctors,etc)
4. Different social levels, in which some members of the society are given higher status than others. (이명박)
5. A highly developed culture including art, architecture, music, literature, science, and writing. (traditional music)
6. A religious system, which might include priests and temples.(churchs, temples,etc)
Arch: architecture
City-States/King: architecture
Cuneiform/Writing: Writing
Devotional Statues: Art
Games: literature
Mathematics: literature
Medicine: Science
Sailboat: Science
Wheel: Science
Written laws: architecture
Ziggurat: Literature
Metalworking: Art
Music: Music
Organized Armies: architecture
Plow: Science
Assignment 2-1 Event A: Food Shortage
1. What helped the human population to grow in Mesopotamia? The crops grew good in the area.
2. What does cultivate mean? Growing.
3. By 5000 B.C.E. what major problem did the farmers in the Zagros hills have? They didn't have enough area to farm.
4. Using the choices in the critical thinking section of the activity, what is the best way to deal with the food shortage? Why? I'd just abandon farming and just go hunting and gathering because, all that you do is waste time trying to deal with farm.
Event B: Uncontrolled Water Supply
1. What two major problems did farmers have as they tried to grow their crops on the Mesopotamian river plains? There were lots of floods and in the summer the sun was too bright they damage the existing vegetation.
2. How did they solve these problems? They controlled the water by ex: digging grounds and make the water run through them.
3. Where did the melted snow that caused flooding come from? From the mountains.
Assignment 2-3
1. How did the Fertile Crescent get its name? The region is part of a larger area called the Fertile Crescent, a large arc of rich, or fertile, farmland.
2. What was the most important factor in making Mesopotamia's farmland fertile? silt a mixture of rich soiland tiny rocks, to the land. The fertile silt made the land ideal for farming.
3. In what ways did a Division of Labor contribute to the growth of Mesopotamiam civilization? With irrigation, the people of Mesopotamia were able to grow more food. Having people available to work on different jobs meant that society could accomplish more.
4. How might running large projects like the maintaining a large and complex irrigation system prepare people for running a government? It would be hard becuase, if you make a mistake everything's over and if you make a good dission you'll sucess.
Assignment 2-2 Event C: Building and Maintaining a Complex Irrigation System
1. What was the first simple method farmers used to get water to their fields from the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers? Farmers carried water in buckets.
2. How did farmers prevent flooding? They built natural earth walls called levees.
3. Over time, carrying buckets of water to the fields was too difficult. Please clearly explain how levees, canals, dams, and reservoirs were used to make life easier for farmers? Levees protected the houses from farming, canals to control directions in which water flowed, and dam and reservoirs helped block the shore water at various place along the rivers.
4. Which word means an extra supply of something such as food? Surplus
5. What could happen if one canal was clogged? They need to clean it.
6. How did different villages take care of the complex irrigation system? They made stuff like canals, levees, etc.
Event D: Attacks by Neighboring Communities
1. How did Mesopotamian villages help each other? They cleared silt from canals to prevent clogging.
2. How were people, who lived very far apart, connected to each other? They were connected by the irrigation canals that would wound through the cities.
3. What did many villages grow into? Towns and cities.
4. What do we call the region in Mesopotamia that had many growing cities and towns? What are the people called that come from this region? Sumer, sumerians.
5. How could one city stop the water from reaching another city? They blocked other cities canals.
6. Why was it easy to attack other cities on the Mesopotamian plains? Because, you could block everything from there.
7. What defense plan is best to protect a city? To make a big wall that surrounds that village. Assignment 9
1. The single most important thing I learned was that i was a homo sapien. If I didn't even know what brain I was I'd be stupid.
2. Something that confused me or that I didn't understand was that there was so may types of brains that I never knew.
3. What surprised me the most was that we all were a blood of African people.
4. I would like to know more about homo sapiens.
5. The part that I think I will always remember was that I'm a homo sapien. Assignment 8
1. What are three things about daily life in Catal Huyuk that surprised you? Why did they surprise you? There are three thing that surprise me they are: I never knew people did brain surgery that time, I couldn't imagine the man hunting pigs and peeling off their disgusting skins and finally, It totally freaked me out when I heard that people also dated that time. These are very surprising facts because, brain surgery would of been very difficult then and hard because they don't have proper materials to fix peoples brains, it's even weird with people peeling off animal skins because, I bet they saw blood squirting out of the animals and finally, I just thought people that time just got bebies that time even though they don't like each other bu I guess they are not animals so I now understand why they dated
2. What are three things about daily life in Catal Huyuk you knew already from class? I knew Catal Huyuk became Turkey, the houses were made out of mud and bricks and people that time still didn't have proper clothes like ours.
3. Jookie is a 12 year old living in Catal Huyuk. Explain three ways her life is different than yours. I bet Jookie would like to play with mud while I'm playing with my Nintendo DS light.
I Jookie is eating meat I'd be eating steak house at somewhere and finally If Jookie was helping his parents do something I'd be at KIS!
Assignment 7
1. What was the main difference between life in the Paleolithic period and life in the Neolithic period? In the paleolithic period, the people had to go out hunting but now days we just go to the store and buy it. We have better technology than the paleolithic period.
2. How did people's lives change as they began to domesticate plants and animals during the Neolithic period? We didn't need to move a lot and we could just pa money and buy whatever we want.
3. What are some advantages and disadvantages of the changes in daily life that occurred as a result of the development of agriculture? The disadvantage about life changing is that we don't move a lot so people get unhealthier every time time goes past and an advantage is that we don't need to do all the hard things that the old stone age people did. Assignment 6
1. Read the paragraph in the Beginnings of Agriculture section on p.40 and answer the question (How could this discovery change your life?).
Read The First Farmers and Plants section on p.41 and answer these questions:
2. What is another name for the New Stone Age? Neolithic Era.
3. What kinds of tools did people make during this time? What do you think they used these tools for? Drills, to making holes in firm materials, esp. by rotation.
4. In the textbook it says that people during the Neolithic period could now make fire. Which hominid would this be? Homo hobulians.
5. When we changed from gathering food to growing food, historians called it the Neolithic Revolution. Why do you think it's called a revolution? Because it's like a cycle, you eat it and then plant it and then eat it again.
6. What is the definition for the word 'domestication'? the process of changing plants or animals to make them more useful to humans.
7. Using the map on p.41, which animals were domesticated in Asia? Horses,cattle,sheep,goat
8. Using the map on p.41, where was corn first domesticated? North America.
9. If you were a farmer, how would your life be different than a hunter and gatherer. Give three ways your life would be different. If you were a hunter-gatherer you'd go out look for stuff to eat but farmers don't. You'd be using different tools than the hunter-gather. You won't be moving a lot like hunter-gathers.
Assignment 5
Why do historians need archaeologists and anthropologists to study prehistory? The archaeologists and anthropologists know stuff that historians don't know and if they work together they'll learn from each other and will be able to tell the world what history was like 3000000000million years ago.
What might have been one advantage of walking completely upright? Because the people in the past had the strengths to stand up, I think thats why they started to stand up.
What kind of tools did people use during the Paleolithic Era? Spheres and stones.
Design a stone and wood tool you could use to help you with your chores. Describe your tool in a sentence or two. I'd make a big wood spoon to clean up rubbish and a big chunk of stone to sit and clean my desk.
What is a hunter-gatherer? A person who hunted animals and gathered wild plants to survive.
In your opinion, what was the most important change brought by the development of language? They could use language as to talk about how to catch an animal.
Define the boldfaced words above.
prehistory: human history in the period before recorded events, known mainly through archaeological discoveries, study, research, etc.
tools: an implement, esp. one held in the hand, as a hammer, saw, or file, for performing or facilitating mechanical operations.
Paleolithic Era: at old stone age.
hunter-gatherer: a person who hunted animals and gathered wild plants to survive. Assignment 4
1. On which continent were Lucy and other hominids found? Olduvai Gorge.
2. What is the scientific name of Lucy? hominid
3. How long ago did Lucy live? 3 million years ago
4. What was an important step in human development? The ability to walk on two legs was a key step in human development.
5. Describe and explain how these hominids are different from each other. Use the charts about the hominids on page 30 to help you with the answer.
Make sure your answer is clear and detailed.
Australopithecus-Southern ape, stood upright and walked on two legs.
Homo habilis-handy man,used early stone tool for chopping and scraping.
Homo erectus-upright man, used early stone tools like the hand ax.
Homo sapiens-Wise man, learned to make fire and use a wide variety of tools.
6. Which hominid is us now? Assignment 3
1. What were your roles in the 'Creation of a Puppet Show' project? The 3 gods.
2. What Problems did your group run into? We were worrying about what kind of play we should do.
3. How did your group deal with these problems? We just did rock, paper,scissors and decided which one.
4. Identify two similarities between all of the origin stories. They were all about how the humans were made and all of the origin story had a problem.
5. Compare and Contrast any of the two origin stories presented in class (at least one paragraph).
Origin story of Egypt & Origin story of the Summer
When I compared these two stories, I noticed that both of them
were about how humans were made and how they solved a
problem. The difference was that Ra made humans with his own power and
in the other story, Tiamate's body was used to make humans. Assignment 2
1. How did the people make the pyramids?
2. When was the color TV invented?
3. Who made the alphabets we use now days?
4. When were the fishing hook invented?
5. What do people now days do the same thing as the olden days? Assignment 1
1. Were you born in a BCE year or an CE year? A CE year
2. Put the following dates in order: AD 2000, 3100 BC, 15 BCE, AD 476, AD 3, CE 1215.
Answers: 3100 BC, 15 BCE, AD 3, AD 4776, CE 1215, AD 2000.
3. If you read that an event happened c. AD 1000, what would that mean? It was event around that time.
Assignment 4-7
Source: Online Textbook pages 162-171
Directions: You are a sage and you will teach your classmates a part of ancient India's history. The four parts (groups) are...
Each part has (or might have) pictures, illustrations, maps, dates, vocabulary words, and important people. Your job as a sage is to become an expert on your part so you will be able to comfortably and confidently teach others. Remember that if you don't understand the information, you won't be able to teach others properly. Follow these steps to become a great sage:
Steps
Assignment 4-6
1. What are the main ideas expressed in Ashoka's edicts? People should live a good life by trusting people and being nice to them and that we should not be mean to slaves and servants.
2. What are some of the ways in which Ashoka's leadership promoted unity in India? People start believing in Buddhism and that people rebirth depending on your karma.
3. In what ways did Ashoka's Buddhist beliefs contribute to the unification of India? They gave people hope and peace and that there's no social level.
4. In addition to the edicts, what else might have contributed to the unification of India during this time period? One talks about effort and that if you put much effort into something you'll achieve your goal and that you will be happy.
5. Explain how one of the edicts you examined could be categorized another way. I categorized my topic about men who are to be given three days' respite in general welfare but I could change it to security because, the people there are securing the man if they're going to run away or not.
(i.e. instead of Buddhist Values it could also concern Justice)
April 26th (Poem due)
Assignment 4-5
1. Why would having a central government help in planning and organizing a city? They could have combined their system to have one central government, so that government will deal in planning and organizing a city.
2. Who were Rajahs? Rulers of the city.
3. What is a Guru? A type of teacher.
4. What subjects were taught in school? Religions, about the government, (religious nature).
5. Who was in charge of the government? Indus priest
6. Why did people look up to the priests? Because the priests were the ones who made the offerings to the gods.
Assignment 4-4
1. What varna were you in during the caste system simulation? I was a Brahmin.
2. What was your favorite part about the caste system simulation? Why? I liked to make people do jobs for me like cleaning my Mac Book and getting me water, etc.
3. What part of the simulation made you angry, upset, or frustrated? Why? I was frustrated when people wouldn't do exactly what I wanted them to do for instance like drawing a master piece for me but came out to be a weird looking creature.
4. Do you think this system is fair? Why or why not? I think it's fair since the Brahmins because they have lots to take care of giving people commands, (that's a hard job since to assign every people there) while the other people like the Sudras, etc people work on their things so it's equal.
5. Do you think a society should organize people into social classes? Why or Why not? No we'd just do what we want instead of going to places we have to...I'd rather have freedom.
Assignment 4-1
In the 1990's, satellite pictures revealed an ancient, dried riverbed located in India's present-day Thar Desert. Geologists have identified this riverbed as the route of the ancient Sarasvati River. The Sarasvati lay east of the Indus River and generally followed the same course, originating in the Himalaya mountains and emptying into the Arabian Sea. Geologists believe that the Sarasvati River dried up around 1900 B.C.E. Over time, the once fertile area around the Sarasvati River dried up around 1900 B.C.E. Over time, the once fertile area around the Sarasvati evolved into the dry, hot desert that exists today.
Early Indian agricultural settlements arose in the Indus-Sarasvati river region at least as far back as 6500 B.C.E. Like many other ancient peoples, the early Indians settled by rivers. They settled primarily on the banks of the Sarasvati River as well as along the banks of the Indus River. These rivers provided the ancient Indians with plenty of water, and the land near the rivers was fertile and excellent for growing crops. The rivers also provided the Indians with a convenient way to travel and trade among themselves and with other civilizations. Archeologists have found artifacts from the Indus-Sarasvati civilization - such as carved seals - in Mesopotamia's Sumer. These discoveries have led scholars to believe that the early Indians traded with Mesopotamia, possibly by traveling in ships down the Indus and Sarasvati rivers to the Arabian Sea and then west to Sumer and other locations.
After the Sarasvati River dried up around 1900 B.C.E., the Indus-Sarasvati Indians moved to more habitable areas, such as the fertile banks of the Ganga river further east. Archeological evidence shows, however, that people settled by the Ganga River as far back as 5000 B.C.E.
Questions:
1. In what ways is your map similar to the one that you see in the map above? They both have all the mountains ,rivers and oceans labled.
2. What physio graphic features can you identify on this map that are not on your map? The Sarasvati River, Indian Ocean.
3. Why do you think settlements developed along the Indus and Sarasvati rivers? Explain with clear and complete details. Since those two rivers had water and fertile land, people would of lived close there for farming, washing their clothes in the river, playing.
4. Accurately draw and label the ancient Sarasvati River on your map.
5. Why did ancient Indian people eventually migrate to the Ganga River? The Sarasvati River dries up around 1900 B.C.E so the people who used to live there all migrated to the Ganga River.
Assignment 4-2
1. What was discovered during the excavations of Mohenjo-Daro? There is the a big mound. Large and important buildings have been discovered here. Archologists call this place Citadel.
2. How is Mohenjo-Daro similar to our cities today? They had houses and rooms in them. They also had drain too.
3. What can we learn from archaeological discoveries (such as artifacts and city construction) in Mohenjo-Daro? Rich people made jewelry with gold beads and were also worn by rich woman. Animals were carved on seals and has Indus writing on it. They had wheels then and children played with cart models.
4. Give clear and specific information about how people lived in Mohenjo-Daro. In your answer, you have to talk about the artifacts that you discovered and put into the museum. Traders used weights to measure the goods they traded. Rich people made jewelry with gold beads and were also worn by rich woman. Animals were carved on seals and has Indus writing on it. They had wheels then and children played with cart models.
5. What do we know about the Priest-King? They are very important men. They wore gold headbands, They had their upper lips shaved and their beard combed. Back of their heads were flat.
6. What was the Great Bath and how was it used? The Great Bath is a bathing pool and there was water in it for people to go in.
Assignment 4-3
Think about the activity we did in class as archeologists in Mohenjo-Daro. Using the source above, your ideas, and the notes you took about archeologists ideas, answer the following questions clearly and completely on your wiki page. Each answer should be at least two sentences long with specific information.1. What have you learned about daily life in Mohenjo-Daro from this activity? They had drains so all the dirty water could go down and go into the rivers. They played games and even used a dice like we do in these days.
2. Which characteristics of civilization do you see represented in the artifacts you looked at? Explain. I saw the seal figure and I think it's in a highly developed culture including art, architecture, music, literature, science, and writing because, there was Indus writing on it and it had also have art that looked very advanced. It was very specific and detailed.
3. In what ways do you think Mohenjo-Daro was like a modern city? They had houses made from mud-bricks and important men wore necklaces. They even had wheels then.
4. Why do you think it is difficult for us to know exactly what life was like in ancient civilizations like those in the Indus-Sarasvati region? Since the archeologists didn't know how woman and men looked like then we didn't know what jobs they do (example: wearing only pants= farmer). There wasn't enough tools to investigate what they used then.
5. What do you think might have contributed to the decline of Mohenjo-Daro? Maybe the other parts of India pushed them away since they had so good highly developed culture. Other parts of India could of stole their ideas.
Ancient India day 2
1. What have you learned about daily life in Mohenjo-Daro from this activity? They had alleys, wells, bathing pools and had indoor bathrooms in their houses.
2. Which aspects of daily life do you see represented in the picture that the artist drew? Life of farmers and servants working in the town to serve the priests.
3. In what ways do you think Mohenjo-Daro was like a modern city? The people are wearing clothes that were only baggy pants and are carrying pots on their heads.
4. Why do you think it is difficult for us to know exactly what life was like in ancient civilizations like those in the Indus-Sarasvati region? We're no sure because, we don't have a lot of proof to tell if the people those days had other jobs or what the houses EXACTLY look like in those days.
5. What do you think might have contributed to the decline of Mohenjo-Daro.
They are slaves because there was a bunch of people sitting in the ground and were like guards so they wouldn't escape and other people giving them food.
Assignment 3-8
Now that we are finished with the ancient Egypt unit, I would like you to reflect on what you have learned about ancient Egypt. Please complete these sentences clearly and with specific details. Write the answers on your wiki page. If you need reminders of what we did, just scroll through the assignments on this page or look through your notes.
1. The single most important thing I learned was that there was once a pharaoh who was a female named Hatshepsut and claimed herself queen. The Nile River was very important to the Egyptians.
2. Something that confused me or that I didn't understand was why did Hatshepsut want to be a pharaoh even though nobody actually wanted her to be a one since she's a woman.
3. What surprised me the most was that there was a female ruler named Hatshepsut and claimed herself a pharaoh with even a fake beard on.
4. I would like to know more about the Nile River, how it was created and why people liked it so much.
5. The part that I think I will always remember was that Hatshepsut was a female "pharaoh" .
Assignment 3-5
Part 1
The Old Kingdom (2700 BCE - 2200 BCE)
In the Old Kingdom Egyptians started to build the first pyramids, pyramid is a huge tomb just for the pharaohs and is has4 triangle shaped walls that met in the point on the top. The largest pyramid was built by more then 100 Egyptians called the Great Pyramid of Khufu. It covers mare than 13 acres and stand at the height 481 feet. The pyramids shape pointing to the sky represented the Pharaohs journey to the after life.Part 2
The Middle Kingdom (2100 BCE - 1800 BCE)
In the Middle Kingdom pharaohs didn't have enough wealth and power. Building pyramids cost a lot of money and the pharaoh could no collect enough taxes to keep up with the expenses. Life in this time was not good all people were dissatisfied with the pharaoh and had really long wars with the nobles. The nobles had enough power to defeat the pharaohs so they all made their life their own way. They crushed down the pharaoh's temples and made people believe in different Gods.
Part 3
The New Kingdom (1500 BCE - 1000 BCE)
In the New Kingdom conquest and trading brought the pharaoh wealth. Conquest brought Egyptian traders into contact with more distant lands also Egypt's trade expanded along with it's empire. Trade routes (path followed by traders) were also developed. In the war the Egypt empires were in the war and the Hykso and after that was Syria. Life being an empire was difficult since there was so many wars they all had to be in it and most of the people died being an empire was like giving your own life away.
Assignment 3-4
Part 1: Go to this site and read about the different Egyptian gods and goddesses. Choose one of these that you would like to be and explain why you would like to be that god or goddess. Then choose one that you would not want to be and explain why. Make sure your explanations are middle school quality explanations.I'd like to be the Sky Goddess which is Nut. I'd like to be her because she decides when morning and night is and that's on of the most important thing on earth, changing to day and night. I want to do something important so I'd like to be Nut. I'd not like to be Tawaret the goddess who protects pregnant woman because, Tawaret looks very ugly having a hippos face and all it does is protecting pregnant woman. It's also important to but pregnant woman can take care of them by themselves without a goddess.Part 2: Compare these Egyptian gods and goddesses with the Mesopotamian gods and goddesses. Did you find similar gods? Name the gods/goddesses and clearly explain the similarities. Why do you think they are similar even though Egypt and the Mesopotamian civilizations were different? Adad and Anu are similar gods becuase they both have a job at the sky. Ninhursag is a goddess and protects woman gods and the god scorpion protects the sun god Shamash. They both protect people even though their goddess and god. Even though Egypt and the Mesopotamian civilizations were different goddess and gods had similar jobs because there used to be gods that they needed to protect,
Assignment 3-2
1. Read the If YOU were there section. How do you feel about working for the pharaoh? I'd feel lazy to do all the stuff for the pharaoh.
2. Eventually the Third Dynasty began in ancient Egypt. The Third Dynasty was the beginning of what historians call Old Kingdom. When did it start and end? 2700 to 2200BC.
3. Explain how ancient Egyptians felt about their country and their pharaoh. They believed that Egypt belonged to the gods they thought the gods sent down the pharaoh to protect Egypt.
4. What were the responsibilities of the pharaoh? Keeping the crops growing well and making no one sick.
5. What is best known about the famous pharaoh, Khufu? Can you name a specific monument built for him?
6.a Clearly explain the structure of society in the Old Kingdom. (Note: This should be a long answer.) Pharaoh was the highest then the noble then the craftspeople and the scribe then farmers, servants and slaves.
6.b. What may be some advantages and disadvantages of such a large segment of the population being farmers, servants, and slaves? Advantages are that you don't see the king often so sometimes you could rest for a while and some disadvantages is that you got to work all day without getting any money.
6.c. What did farmers do during flood season? Farmers worked on the pharaoh's building projects.
7. Clearly explain trading in ancient Egypt (what was traded and who they traded with). They got gold, copper, ivory, slaves, and stone for building.
8. Define the word acquire. Use acquire in an original sentence. Acquire is to get something. I acquired 10 bucks from my mom.
9. Using the drawing of Egyptian society on page 94, explain where Viziers would be placed. I think they'll be just below the pharaoh because, they work for the pharaoh and helping him do things.
Assignment 3-3
Assignment 2-8
Six Characteristics of Civilization
Evidence for Characteristic
Explanation Assyrians
2. A regular food supply that is not likely to suddenly change.
3. Specialization of labor, in which members of the society perform different jobs.
4. Different social levels, in which some members of the society are given higher status than others.
5. A highly developed culture including art, architecture, music, literature, science, and writing.
6. A religious system, which might include priests and temples.
Evidence for Characteristic
1. There are people who take control of the country.2. They had fertile and rich dirt there and farming was good.
3. There are people who work for the king and other farming or staying home doing nothing.
4. Priest and just normal people are all in different levels.
5. Writing, clothing.
6. Had temples and priests.
Explanation
1. The morach takes controls of what everyone's doing.2. They had rich dirt there so they could plant lots of stuff because it grew well there.
3. The priest worked for the gods while other people were doing farming or just staying home.
4. Kings are in the highest place, priest in the second, and just regular people in the last.
5. People made the first writing called, Assyrian and Modern Assyrian.
6. People believed in gods and and went to temples to pray for them.
Assignment 2-7
1. Read the "If you were there..." section on page 74. How will you advise the King? Everybody should be punished the same (if they did a crime that's similar) even though nobles and common people are in different levels they should be treated the same.
2. What happened to Ur by 2000 BCE? Ur lay in ruins.
3. Where was Babylon located? Babylon was located on the Euphrates River.
4. Who became the king of Babylon? When did he become king? In 1792 BCE Hammurabi became the king.
5. What is a monarch? A monarch is a ruler of a kingdom or empire.
6. After conquering all of Mesopotamia, what did Hammurabi call his empire? The Babylonian Empire.
7. Hammurabi was a great warrior and leader. What other skills did he have? He was an able ruler who could govern a huge empire.
8. What is Hammurabi's Code? What areas of daily life did the code cover? It's 286 laws you need to follow. Loans, marriage,etc.
9. Give two reasons why Hammurabi's Code was important. The Hammurabi Code lead the earth to a better place by law like capturing criminals. The laws now are in use in these days too.
10. What eventually happened to the Babylonian Empire? How is this similar to what happened to the Akkadian Empire? The Babylonian Empire failed after Babylon the ruler died, and that's exactly what happend to Akkadian's Empire.
11. Read the different laws in the Code of Hammurabi on this site and choose three that you think are interesting. Copy the three laws and their numbers onto your page. Then for each law, explain why you think it's interesting. You can write about if you disagree or agree with the law or if you think the law is a good law or a cruel law.
282. If a slave say to his master: "You are not my master," if they convict him his master shall cut off his ear. I think this is too cruel because, cutting off someone's ears only make that person become thinking that the master's not his master.
14. If any one steal the minor son of another, he shall be put to death. This is good because that will make people think that they should never kin app people.
22. If any one is committing a robbery and is caught, then he shall be put to death. This is an ok law because, that will decrease the amount of the people who will try to steal things because they are afraid.
Assignment 2-6
Trader's Circuit questions
Assignment 2-5
Assignment 2-4
1. Is Korea a civilization according to the six characteristics explained in class? Provide one example from Korea. for each characteristic. Number 1 accords to the six characteristics because, we have a government named Ey-myoung-back (이명박) and he decides things that Korea needs.2. Does a civilization, in your opinion, need to have all of the characteristics mentioned? Why or why not? I think we needs all of the characteristics mentioned because, there needs to be a government to rule the country and people should have job, people should have different social levels because, if they are all in the saem level they'll do things whatever they want. We should develop culture to show country spirit and we also should have temples churches and stuff so people could pray for the religion they believe in.
The Six Characteristics of a Civilization:
1. A system of government that directs and controls some actions of the members of the society. (이명박)
2. A regular food supply that is not likely to suddenly change. (farming)
3. Specialization of labor, in which members of the society perform different jobs. (teacher,doctors,etc)
4. Different social levels, in which some members of the society are given higher status than others. (이명박)
5. A highly developed culture including art, architecture, music, literature, science, and writing. (traditional music)
6. A religious system, which might include priests and temples.(churchs, temples,etc)
Arch: architecture
City-States/King: architecture
Cuneiform/Writing: Writing
Devotional Statues: Art
Games: literature
Mathematics: literature
Medicine: Science
Sailboat: Science
Wheel: Science
Written laws: architecture
Ziggurat: Literature
Metalworking: Art
Music: Music
Organized Armies: architecture
Plow: Science
Assignment 2-1
Event A: Food Shortage
1. What helped the human population to grow in Mesopotamia? The crops grew good in the area.
2. What does cultivate mean? Growing.
3. By 5000 B.C.E. what major problem did the farmers in the Zagros hills have? They didn't have enough area to farm.
4. Using the choices in the critical thinking section of the activity, what is the best way to deal with the food shortage? Why? I'd just abandon farming and just go hunting and gathering because, all that you do is waste time trying to deal with farm.
Event B: Uncontrolled Water Supply
1. What two major problems did farmers have as they tried to grow their crops on the Mesopotamian river plains? There were lots of floods and in the summer the sun was too bright they damage the existing vegetation.
2. How did they solve these problems? They controlled the water by ex: digging grounds and make the water run through them.
3. Where did the melted snow that caused flooding come from? From the mountains.
Assignment 2-3
1. How did the Fertile Crescent get its name? The region is part of a larger area called the Fertile Crescent, a large arc of rich, or fertile, farmland.
2. What was the most important factor in making Mesopotamia's farmland fertile? silt a mixture of rich soil and tiny rocks, to the land. The fertile silt made the land ideal for farming.
3. In what ways did a Division of Labor contribute to the growth of Mesopotamiam civilization? With irrigation, the people of Mesopotamia were able to grow more food. Having people available to work on different jobs meant that society could accomplish more.
4. How might running large projects like the maintaining a large and complex irrigation system prepare people for running a government? It would be hard becuase, if you make a mistake everything's over and if you make a good dission you'll sucess.
Assignment 2-2
Event C: Building and Maintaining a Complex Irrigation System
1. What was the first simple method farmers used to get water to their fields from the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers? Farmers carried water in buckets.
2. How did farmers prevent flooding? They built natural earth walls called levees.
3. Over time, carrying buckets of water to the fields was too difficult. Please clearly explain how levees, canals, dams, and reservoirs were used to make life easier for farmers? Levees protected the houses from farming, canals to control directions in which water flowed, and dam and reservoirs helped block the shore water at various place along the rivers.
4. Which word means an extra supply of something such as food? Surplus
5. What could happen if one canal was clogged? They need to clean it.
6. How did different villages take care of the complex irrigation system? They made stuff like canals, levees, etc.
Event D: Attacks by Neighboring Communities
1. How did Mesopotamian villages help each other? They cleared silt from canals to prevent clogging.
2. How were people, who lived very far apart, connected to each other? They were connected by the irrigation canals that would wound through the cities.
3. What did many villages grow into? Towns and cities.
4. What do we call the region in Mesopotamia that had many growing cities and towns? What are the people called that come from this region? Sumer, sumerians.
5. How could one city stop the water from reaching another city? They blocked other cities canals.
6. Why was it easy to attack other cities on the Mesopotamian plains? Because, you could block everything from there.
7. What defense plan is best to protect a city? To make a big wall that surrounds that village.
Assignment 9
1. The single most important thing I learned was that i was a homo sapien. If I didn't even know what brain I was I'd be stupid.
2. Something that confused me or that I didn't understand was that there was so may types of brains that I never knew.
3. What surprised me the most was that we all were a blood of African people.
4. I would like to know more about homo sapiens.
5. The part that I think I will always remember was that I'm a homo sapien.
Assignment 8
1. What are three things about daily life in Catal Huyuk that surprised you? Why did they surprise you? There are three thing that surprise me they are: I never knew people did brain surgery that time, I couldn't imagine the man hunting pigs and peeling off their disgusting skins and finally, It totally freaked me out when I heard that people also dated that time. These are very surprising facts because, brain surgery would of been very difficult then and hard because they don't have proper materials to fix peoples brains, it's even weird with people peeling off animal skins because, I bet they saw blood squirting out of the animals and finally, I just thought people that time just got bebies that time even though they don't like each other bu I guess they are not animals so I now understand why they dated
2. What are three things about daily life in Catal Huyuk you knew already from class? I knew Catal Huyuk became Turkey, the houses were made out of mud and bricks and people that time still didn't have proper clothes like ours.
3. Jookie is a 12 year old living in Catal Huyuk. Explain three ways her life is different than yours. I bet Jookie would like to play with mud while I'm playing with my Nintendo DS light.
I Jookie is eating meat I'd be eating steak house at somewhere and finally If Jookie was helping his parents do something I'd be at KIS!
Assignment 7
1. What was the main difference between life in the Paleolithic period and life in the Neolithic period? In the paleolithic period, the people had to go out hunting but now days we just go to the store and buy it. We have better technology than the paleolithic period.
2. How did people's lives change as they began to domesticate plants and animals during the Neolithic period? We didn't need to move a lot and we could just pa money and buy whatever we want.
3. What are some advantages and disadvantages of the changes in daily life that occurred as a result of the development of agriculture? The disadvantage about life changing is that we don't move a lot so people get unhealthier every time time goes past and an advantage is that we don't need to do all the hard things that the old stone age people did.
Assignment 6
1. Read the paragraph in the Beginnings of Agriculture section on p.40 and answer the question (How could this discovery change your life?).
Read The First Farmers and Plants section on p.41 and answer these questions:
2. What is another name for the New Stone Age? Neolithic Era.
3. What kinds of tools did people make during this time? What do you think they used these tools for? Drills, to making holes in firm materials, esp. by rotation.
4. In the textbook it says that people during the Neolithic period could now make fire. Which hominid would this be? Homo hobulians.
5. When we changed from gathering food to growing food, historians called it the Neolithic Revolution. Why do you think it's called a revolution? Because it's like a cycle, you eat it and then plant it and then eat it again.
6. What is the definition for the word 'domestication'? the process of changing plants or animals to make them more useful to humans.
7. Using the map on p.41, which animals were domesticated in Asia? Horses,cattle,sheep,goat
8. Using the map on p.41, where was corn first domesticated? North America.
9. If you were a farmer, how would your life be different than a hunter and gatherer. Give three ways your life would be different. If you were a hunter-gatherer you'd go out look for stuff to eat but farmers don't. You'd be using different tools than the hunter-gather. You won't be moving a lot like hunter-gathers.
Assignment 5- Why do historians need archaeologists and anthropologists to study prehistory? The archaeologists and anthropologists know stuff that historians don't know and if they work together they'll learn from each other and will be able to tell the world what history was like 3000000000million years ago.
- What might have been one advantage of walking completely upright? Because the people in the past had the strengths to stand up, I think thats why they started to stand up.
- What kind of tools did people use during the Paleolithic Era? Spheres and stones.
- Design a stone and wood tool you could use to help you with your chores. Describe your tool in a sentence or two. I'd make a big wood spoon to clean up rubbish and a big chunk of stone to sit and clean my desk.
- What is a hunter-gatherer? A person who hunted animals and gathered wild plants to survive.
- In your opinion, what was the most important change brought by the development of language? They could use language as to talk about how to catch an animal.
- Define the boldfaced words above.
prehistory: human history in the period before recorded events, known mainly through archaeological discoveries, study, research, etc.tools: an implement, esp. one held in the hand, as a hammer, saw, or file, for performing or facilitating mechanical operations.
Paleolithic Era: at old stone age.
hunter-gatherer: a person who hunted animals and gathered wild plants to survive.
Assignment 4
1. On which continent were Lucy and other hominids found? Olduvai Gorge.
2. What is the scientific name of Lucy? hominid
3. How long ago did Lucy live? 3 million years ago
4. What was an important step in human development? The ability to walk on two legs was a key step in human development.
5. Describe and explain how these hominids are different from each other. Use the charts about the hominids on page 30 to help you with the answer.
Make sure your answer is clear and detailed.
6. Which hominid is us now?
Assignment 3
1. What were your roles in the 'Creation of a Puppet Show' project? The 3 gods.
2. What Problems did your group run into? We were worrying about what kind of play we should do.
3. How did your group deal with these problems? We just did rock, paper,scissors and decided which one.
4. Identify two similarities between all of the origin stories. They were all about how the humans were made and all of the origin story had a problem.
5. Compare and Contrast any of the two origin stories presented in class (at least one paragraph).
Origin story of Egypt & Origin story of the Summer
When I compared these two stories, I noticed that both of them
were about how humans were made and how they solved a
problem. The difference was that Ra made humans with his own power and
in the other story, Tiamate's body was used to make humans.
Assignment 2
1. How did the people make the pyramids?
2. When was the color TV invented?
3. Who made the alphabets we use now days?
4. When were the fishing hook invented?
5. What do people now days do the same thing as the olden days?
Assignment 1
1. Were you born in a BCE year or an CE year? A CE year
2. Put the following dates in order: AD 2000, 3100 BC, 15 BCE, AD 476, AD 3, CE 1215.
Answers: 3100 BC, 15 BCE, AD 3, AD 4776, CE 1215, AD 2000.
3. If you read that an event happened c. AD 1000, what would that mean? It was event around that time.